@clawkins.bsky.social
Conservation biologist in lutruwita/Tasmania 🌍🌏 Coordinates citizen science to monitor threatened species: NatureTrackers & more with the Bookend Trust & the University of Tasmania https://naturetrackers.au/
... wetlands are being drained even today, as we've discovered for ourselves while ground-truthing potential habitat for the endangered Australasian bittern.
Find out exactly why the disappearance of our wetlands matters here – www.ramsar.org/about/our-mi... [2/2]
#WorldWetlandsDay #Tasmania
Today is World Wetlands Day, around the world. It marks the signing of the intergovernmental Ramsar Convention on Wetlands by most countries, including Australia, in 1971. Unfortunately... [1/2]
📷 Blackmans Lagoon, Waterhouse
We recorded Australasian bittern boom calls (=breeding) here this season
So hard to read; both for Madagascar, a country I came to know well in the 1990s, & for Australia just as politicians battle furiously over any potential improvement to nature protection laws.
Species & numbers details via the IUCN Red List: www.iucnredlist.org/search
#EPBC #ExtinctionMatters
#ExtinctionMatters
Birdsong is not only beautiful, it’s also full of information. This is where Acoustic Monitoring comes in. Will you support the development of this new and important work? Find out more and donate today ➡️ www.bto.org/acoustic... #bioacoustics #ornithology
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Really beautiful
I’m sad to see the bittern gone…
IKR - imagine!! You're thinking of CETI's work?
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Dive into the sounds of Tasmania's wetlands from dusk till dawn...🧵⬆️
#acoustics #citizenscience #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #nationalscienceweek #STEM #ornithology #bittern #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature #CallTrackers #NatureTrackers 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
...hone the recognition software, so we can all better monitor for bitterns across Tasmania.
It's fun, there'll be great snacks, & you don't need to be an expert. Have a go for National Science Week!
Details & bookings: events.humanitix.com/bittern-ques...
#nationalscienceweek
In Hobart this Sunday? Your ears are very much needed for this special BITTERN QUEST!
Help check CallTrackers' haunting recordings from around Tasmania—tentatively identified as likely the 'boom' of an Endangered Australasian bittern—in order to...
#nationalscienceweek #citizenscience #bioacoustics
The Field Guide to the Insects of Tasmania now offers yet another fantastic tool…
#Tasmania #insects #nature #TakeACloserLook
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#NatureTrackers' big #news! 🧵
with @btobirds.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #acoustics #citizenscience #CallTrackers #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #nationalscienceweek #STEM #ornithology #birds #curlew #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
Please be part of it! Sign up! And for #NationalScienceWeek there are friendly intros to CallTrackers across Tasmania...
naturetrackers.au/news/spring-...
#CitizenScience #monitoring #conservation #Tasmania #NatureTrackers
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📷 Helen Cunningham
—by Cradle Coast Authority’s NRM + Devonport City Council, under the Aus Govt-funded Urban Rivers & Catchments Program.
As the habitat improves, will #CallTrackers start to record the haunting curlew call & the bittern's boom?
Now we can find out.
#acoustic #conservation 🧪🌏🪶🌿🦇🎙️
📷 Elaine McDonald
Far eastern curlews have declined rapidly, facing disturbance, pollution & habitat loss in China, Russia, SE Asia, Aus & NZ— & on their migration routes between these. It's our largest shorebird; & check that incredible bill!
Hence restoration efforts at the Mersey estuary—
#WildOz
📷 Jenny Ostenfeld
This season, we can announce a new call recogniser in the software: for Critically Endangered FAR EASTERN CURLEWS, seen but rarely heard in #Tasmania.
It recognised calls from our 1st recordings near curlews, at dusk & dawn.
Where else will #CallTrackers detect them?
#news 🧪🌏🪶🌿🎙️
📷 Elaine McDonald
These annual #volunteer -run surveys across Tasmania, using recorders borrowed from libraries, can help track changes in these species' distributions & numbers.
We can even head back in time, to pick out calls of species that the Acoustic Pipeline can now recognise, from stored recordings...
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If you contribute to CallTrackers' annual surveys for #Tasmania 's 'noisy but elusive' species (like bats & the Endangered Australasian bittern)—you get to use @btobirds.bsky.social's Acoustic Pipeline software. Increasingly accurately, this can flag likely calls of these species...
#citsci 🧪🌏🪶🌿🦇🎙️
...and keep your eyes peeled for VERY exciting news coming soon, about the species we can learn about through CallTrackers acoustic monitoring...
#Tasmania #CallTrackers #NatureTrackers #bats #bitterns #citizenscience #stem #nationalscienceweek #acoustic #conservation 🌏 🧪🪶🦇🌿🎙️
Learn all about it for #NationalScienceWeek! Every Sept-March, you can help monitor wildlife across #Tasmania & learn more about your more elusive neighbours, by borrowing #CallTrackers’ state-of-the-art recorders from various libraries.
Find out more in a workshop: naturetrackers.au/news/spring-...
...check out this very cool online workshop which will enable you to explore your recordings further 😲 🦇
Find out more with Tas bat expert Dr Lisa Cawthen:
www.scienceweek.net.au/event/chirop...
#acoustics #bats #Tasmania #wildlife #monitoring #nature #calltrackers #nationalscienceweek
Tasmanians! Getting into the massive #NationalScienceWeek buzz? Maybe you've already booked into a 'Discover CallTrackers' acoustic monitoring workshop, or 'Bittern Quest'? Details in #NatureTrackers' calendar—see August: naturetrackers.au/about/events...
But ALSO...
#CitSci #STEM #Tasmania 🧪🌏🌿🎙️🪶🦇
It's a difficult concept & a *nightmare* choice (& I want more invertebrates) but still - let's give more fab species a big boost! Vote! Vote! Vote!
ikr
…but maybe just leave it to the velvet worms? 😆
